On Monday the 34-year-old was informed by new ECB director of cricket Andrew Strauss that he is not part of the Three Lions' long-term plans.

He has been out of the international reckoning since January 2014 but earlier this year ECB chairman Colin Graves said he would be given the chance to earn a spot in the team.

However, despite hitting a career-best 355 not out for Surrey on Monday, Pietersen has been told his international career is effectively over.

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"I just find it incredibly deceitful what has happened to me and am frankly finding difficult to understand right now," Pietersen wrote in a column for The Telegraph. "It is horrendous to feel I have been led down the garden path. They knew all along this was a dead end for me.

Strauss cited the trust issues between the ECB and KP as the main reason behind the snub, but did offer Pietersen a role on the advisory panel.

"I told him to forget it. How can he in one sentence say we cannot trust you and then in the next try and say we want you to be on a board because you have such a wonderful cricket brain?"

Pietersen's strained relationship with captain Alastair Cook is something which would have needed resolving were Pietersen to be reinstated.

And KP says Strauss could have sorted out a clear the air meeting between the duo.

He added: "I accepted that Alastair Cook and I need to sort a few things out. But I thought we could manage that and Strauss is in a position to facilitate it happening. It is his job to ensure Alastair and I could do that."

Strauss' unpopular decision has been met by widespread derision by fans and experts, with many of them predicting a whitewash in this summer's Test series with Australia.

Pietersen has also confirmed that he will now travel to India on Friday to play in the final stages of the IPL tournament after Sunrisers Hyderabad recalled him.